Of course you remember the wooden cases that would have (2) 440 round spam cans of the 7.62x54R. I think those were like $36 or something. The shipping was more than that. I'll have to look at my old Shotgun News to remember exactly. I remmeber paying $100 for a thousand rounds of Russian steel case .223 and 7.62 x 39mm.
I picked up some spam cans of 5.45x39 cheap, thinking it was 7.62. Ooops. So then I had to buy an AK-74, of course.
Oh, darn!
LOL
Funny how that kind of thing happens. Getting 15 or 20 Galil Orlite 5.56 magazines for $30 gave me an irresistible urge to do a Saiga conversion...
;>)